Family Learning Forum

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USS Constitution
Museum

Engage Families: Minnesota

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Minnesota History CenterEngage Families: Minnesota

A FREE Hands-on, Minds-on Workshop!
Monday, April 26, 2010, 8:45AM - 4:00PM
Minnesota History Center, St.Paul, MN

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The USS Constitution Museum and the Minnesota History Center are excited to present a FREE daylong, IMLS sponsored workshop for museum professionals that will explore how your museum can serve present and future family audiences. Engage Families Minnesota will be hosted at the Minnesota History Center in St. Paul, Minnesota on Monday, April 26, 2010. You are invited to this hands-on, minds-on workshop that offers case studies, innovative ideas, current research and an action plan for creating engaging and educational programming for a multi-generational audience.

The Engage Families: Minnesota workshop is sponsored by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Topics include:

  • The theory of family learning and what it means for museums
  • Writing engaging exhibit labels that your visitors will use
  • Creating low cost hands-on, minds-on exhibits
  • Developing prototypes
  • Present market research about family visitors to museums
  • Examples and discussion of what makes a successful family program
  • The benefits for museums of serving a family audience

You’ll learn simple and effective techniques and come away with low-cost, replicable ideas that will help advance your institution’s interactions with families.

Join us for this FREE, daylong workshop that past participants call, “very applicable to all museums and operations,” that will give you “a host of new ideas to implement at once and for very little money!” Engage Families: Minnesota is free to all museum professionals – register now to reserve your spot!

To register by Monday, April 12, 2010, click here.

Workshop Agenda

  • 8:45 Registration
  • 9:00 What is Family Learning?
  • 10:30 Writing Engaging Labels for families
  • 11:00 Writing activity
  • 11:45 Lunch
  • 12:30 Successful facilitated family programming
  • 1:00 Capture the conversation
  • 1:30 Hands-on Minds-on Exhibits
  • 2:30 Prototyping, surveys and testing
  • 3:00 How do families use your museum?
  • 3:30 Family Learning Action Plan for Your Museum
  • 4:00 Finish

Institute of Museum & Library Services

This workshop is supported by funding from
IMLS 21st Century Museum Professionals